Quotes

Sheba Hart: I hadn't been pursued like this for years... I knew it was wrong, and immoral, and completely ridiculous, but, I don't know. I just allowed it to happen.Barbara Covett: The boy is fifteen!Sheba Hart: But he's quite mature for his age!

Barbara Covett: [about the relationship between Steven and Sheba] Well, that's when you should've stopped it.Sheba Hart: I did! I told him I wouldn't teach him anymore. But he - refused to accept it, he just kept coming back. It began to feel like a - um, a secret, and well, secrets can be... seductive.

Steven Connolly: What're you having for tea, Miss?Sheba Hart: I don't know, I'll probably buy something on the way home.Steven Connolly: Are you a good cook?Sheba Hart: Not really.Steven Connolly: You suck?Sheba Hart: [turns around and notices Steven's sly grin] Go home, Steven.

Here come the local pubescent prowls. The future plumbers, shop assistants, and probably terrorists too. In the old days, we confiscated cigarettes and whack mags. Now it's knives and crack cocaine. And they call it progress.

Sheba Hart: What you say about me, about Richard - you're not fit to shine his shoes. And Ben, and P-Polly, that I'd be happier without them. Why did you do it?[slaps Barbara]Sheba Hart: Because I didn't help you collect your cat?[slaps Barbara again]Sheba Hart: You've cost me my family!Barbara Covett: No, no, take some responsibility! I gave you EXACTLY what you wanted! You'd still be stuck in that marriage without me.Sheba Hart: What?Barbara Covett: You can't accept it yet, but ...Sheba Hart: You think I wanted to be here with you?Barbara Covett: You need me, I'm your friend!Sheba Hart: You put me in prison, I could get TWO years!Barbara Covett: They'll fly by! I'll visit you every week! We've so much life to live together!Sheba Hart: You think this is a love affair? A relationship? What, sticky gold stars, and - and a strand of my hair? A sticker from Pizza Express? It's a flat in the Archway Road and you think you're Virgina frigging Woolf! And where did you get a strand of my hair, did you pluck it from the bath with some special fucking tweezers?Barbara Covett: You know it's rude to read a person's diary, it's private!Sheba Hart: No, we're not companions! We're not friends! You don't even like me!Barbara Covett: That's not true, I only have tender feelings for you, only love!Sheba Hart: You've gone fucking mad. You don't know how to love. You have never, your whole life. Me, Jennifer Dodd. You're nothing but waste and disappointment! You bitter old virgin. They loathed you at school, all of them. I was the idiot who bothered, but only because no one told me you're a fucking vampire! So what is it, Bar? You want to roll around the floor like lovers? You want to fuck me, Barbara?Barbara Covett: Please don't diminish our ...Sheba Hart: Our WHAT?

Linus: The last guy they caught cheating in here? Benedict not only sent him up for 10 years, he had the bank seize his house and then he bankrupted...Rusty: His brother-in-law's tractor dealership. Yeah, I heard.

Tess: Do you remember what I said when we met?Danny: You said I'd better know what I'm doing.Tess: And do you? Because you should walk out that door if you don't.Danny: I know what I'm doing.Terry: What are you doing?